The USDA-USFS Boise Aquatic Sciences Lab Technology Transfer program is a shared program established in 1990 between Forest Service regions 1, 4, 6, and the Rocky Mountain Research Station. Its focus is on improving the communication between researchers and practitioners/managers to meet two primary objectives:

1. Provide timely awareness and delivery of relevant knowledge, technical tools and procedures to assist land managers and practitioners address current and emerging fisheries/aquatic issues

2. Ensure researchers and practitioners/managers were working together to define knowledge gaps and needed research, tools and procedures.

Approximately 40% of the program consists of a mandated component, management of the PACFISH/INFISH Implementation Monitoring Program and database (training, support, collection, storage, retrieval) for annual and long-term reporting out to the Interior Columbia River Basin Deputy Team. The remainder of the program focuses on defining and addressing short and long-term priority practitioner needs for carrying out multi-scale assessments and planning, and the development of conservation and restoration strategies to assist in the protection, maintenance and restoration of T.E.S fish species and stream-riparian environments.

Research products are delivered through publications, handbooks, models, synthesis documents, workshops, meetings, field reviews and consultations, with primary emphasis on web downloadable products.

For more information see our Briefing Paper